Fountain-inkstand.



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PATENT OFFICE.

' FRANK NORTON DORLAND, OF'HUMBOLD'I, NEBRASKA. V

FOUNTAIN-lNKSTANDi SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.730,006, dated June 2, 19 03.

Application filed January 22, 1902 Serial No. 90,774. (No modehl I Toall whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK NORTON Don- LAND, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of Humboldt, in the county of Richardson andState of Nebraska, have invented new and useful Improvements" inFountain- Inkstands, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

My invention is an improvement in fountain ink-wells, and the objectthat I have in view is the provision of a simple cheap article affordinga "shallow dip-chamber which supplies just'the rightdepth'of ink forproperly wetting the nibs and slot of a pen, which allows the ink toflow readily into the reservoir and the air to escape therefrom duringthe operation of filling the stand, which may be easily and quicklywashed out in all its parts, which supplies all the ink contained in thereservoir to the dip-chamber, and in which the ink is stored so thatdust and dirt cannot have access to the reservoir.

With these ends in View my invention consists of an inkstand embodyingcertain novel features of construction and arrangement of parts, as willbe hereinafter fully described and claimed.

Reference is tobe had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters ofreference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a fountaininkstand embodying myinvention. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section thereof, and

Fig. 3 is a similar sectional view showing the inkstand in a positionproper for filling the same.

The inkstand Ais provided with areser voir-ehamber a, and said inkstandhas a fiat bottom surface I) and. a straight rear wall 0,

that lies at right angles to the bottom s'ur On its front side theinkstand is provided with an extension B, the same being face.

made integral with the inkstand. This extension is provided with ashallow dip-chamber B, the depth of which is sufficient to contain asmall volume of ink, in order to properly wet the nibs and slot of apen. The top (I of the dip-chamber is formed with a dipopening 01. Asshown by Fig. 2, the bottom a of the reservoir-chamber is arranged in aplane above the bottom e of the dip-chamber,

and the reservoir-ohambera is in communication with the dip-chamber B byan inoliiied passage f, whereby the ink may flow from thereservoir-chamber into the dipchamberwhen vthe levelof the shallowstratum of-ink inthe dip-chamber B falls below thefport'which' is formedby the lower end portion, of the passage f. One of the importantfeatures of my invention consists in the provision of a filling-port gin the vertical front wall G of the inkstand A, said port being closedby any suitable means such, for example, as the plug or stopper g. Thisport g opens into the reservoir-chamber a of the inkstand, and said portallows the ink to readily flow into the chamber a when the stand isplaced on end in the position shown by Fig. 3.

The inkstand may be of any desired ornamentalpattern,and,as shown by thedrawings, it is formed with a sloping front portion h, having a seriesof ledges h, adapted to form a pen-rack; but it is evident that thisrack may be omitted.

I attach importance to an inkstand having a filling-port g the axis ofwhich is in a plane at right angles to the axis of the dip-opening d inthe dip-chamber.

The inkstand may rest firmly on the surface afforded by the back wall 0when the article is turned up to the position shown by Fig. 3. Ink mayeasily and freely be poured v in tlie'chamber a through the opening gand the channel f. The dip-chamber B and the dip-opening d form a ventthrough which the 'air can easily and fully escape during the op erationof'filling thereservoir. After filling the reservoir the plug or stopperg is replaced in order to securely close the port g, and then theinkstand is-turned down to rest upon its fiat under surface I], thusmaking it assume the position shown by Fig. 2. flow from thereservoir-chamber through the passage f into the dip-chamber until thelevel The ink may from the reservoirchamber into the dipchamber.

The arrangement of the bottom a" of the reservoir-chamber in a planeabove the bottom 6 of the dip chamber allows all of the ink to flow fromthe reservoir-chamber into said dip-chamber, because the ink can passfrom the bottom a through the passage f without obstruction byintervening ledges or shoulders.

In cleaning the ink-well it is placed on end in the position shown byFig. 3, the plug is removed, and water is poured through the port 1 intothe chamber a. The stand may now be shaken in order to agitate the Watercontained in the reservoir, thus washing out any sediment which mayaccumulate due to extensive or continued use of the article. In likemanner the dip-chamber 3 may be washed or flushed out by admitting waterthereto; but in this connection I desire to observe that the main supplyof ink is kept in a condition where the air cannot have a ready accessthereto, whereby dust and dirt are exeluded from the ink and theformation of sediment is minimized.

Having thus described my invention, 1 claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent An inkstand having an inclined and a vertical frontportion, a reservoir-chamber,a narrow extension integral with the stand,a shallow dip-chamber of small cross-sectional area in said extension,an inclined passage leading from the bottom of the reservoir-chmnber tothe bottom of the dip-chamber, a stoppered port in the vertical part ofthe front and having its imaginary axis in a plane at an angle to thelike axis of the dip chamber, and ledges forming a pen-raek on theinclined part of the front.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence ol. two subscribing witnesses.

FRANK NORTON 'UORLAND.

\V itnesses:

1 R. Bor'rnnjmnnn, A. N. SAMUELSON,

